Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday morning, April 19, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. from the Chapel of the Taylor Funeral Home with Rev. Steven Lee officiating. Place of rest will be in the Dickson County Memorial Gardens. Visitation with her family will be Monday evening, April 18, 2016 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and on Tuesday morining beginning at 10:00 a.m. until time of service.
Mary Kay, age 73, loving wife, mother and grandmother died peacefully April 15, 2016 at her home.
She was a resident of Dickson, TN, born in Franklin County,TN (Winchester) and was the daughter of the late E.W. (Lige) and Eleanor Harris Daniel. She was a 1960 graduate of Dickson High School and went on to Tennessee Tech where she recieved her B.S. in business education. Upon college graduation she was an executive secretary with Nashville Transit. Starting her teaching career in January 1965 at West High School in Nashville, soon moving to the Dickson County school system the following year teaching at the Dickson High School. She taught business law, general business and business english. She retired with 30 years of teaching. As a mother, in her early years she took a leave from teaching to be with her children and later returned. Mary Kay formerly taught at the Vo-Tech School. She loved her career in teaching, worked with and help organize the youth leadership in Dickson County and enjoyed in the mock trial competitions. Mary Kay was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church where she married Ted King in 1964.
Survivors include her husband of 51 years, Ted King; her son, Robert King and his wife, Shelly; her daughter, Kathryn Harris King; her four grandchildren. Ryan Jones, Evan Jones, Daniel King and John Robert King, Several cousings, Longtime college friends, Robbie Gower and Norma Williams and her husband, John.
Active casket bearers will be Charlie Daniel, James Ferebee, Marshall Corlew, Ryan Jones, Evan Jones, Daniel King and John Robert King, Honorary will be Reid and Shirley Walker, Hu and Sharon Mayes, Dan and Sue Drinnen, Neil and Becky Milam, Allen and Helen Edlin, Jim and Mary Simmons and Norris Allen.